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The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Includes	17 sites on three continents
Criteria	Cultural: (i)(ii)(vi)
Reference	1321rev
Inscription	2016 (40th Session)
Area	98.5 ha (0.380 sq mi)
Buffer zone	1,409.4 ha (5.442 sq mi)

The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement is a World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of 17 building projects in several countries by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.^[1] These sites demonstrate how Modern Movement architecture was applied to respond to the needs of society and show the global range of a style and an architect.^[2]

List of the sites

ID	Name	Location	Coordinates	Property Area	Buffer Zone
1321-001	Maisons La Roche et Villa Jeanneret	France ( Paris)	48°51′6.696″N 2°15′55.26″E / 48.85186000°N 2.2653500°E / 48.85186000; 2.2653500	0.097 ha (0.24 acres)	13.644 ha (33.72 acres)
1321-002	Petite villa au bord du lac Léman	Switzerland ( Corseaux)	46°28′6.29″N 6°49′45.61″E / 46.4684139°N 6.8293361°E / 46.4684139; 6.8293361	0.04 ha (0.099 acres)	5.8 ha (14 acres)
1321-003	Cité Frugès de Pessac	France ( Pessac)	44°47′56.004″N 0°38′52.368″W / 44.79889000°N 0.64788000°W / 44.79889000; -0.64788000	2.179 ha (5.38 acres)	26.475 ha (65.42 acres)
1321-004	Maison Guiette	Belgium ( Antwerp)	51°11′1.201″N 4°23′35.7″E / 51.18366694°N 4.393250°E / 51.18366694; 4.393250	0.0103 ha (0.025 acres)	6.7531 ha (16.687 acres)
1321-005	Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung	Germany ( Stuttgart)	48°47′59.442″N 9°10′39.594″E / 48.79984500°N 9.17766500°E / 48.79984500; 9.17766500	0.1165 ha (0.288 acres)	33.6213 ha (83.080 acres)
1321-006	Villa Savoye et loge du jardiner	France ( Poissy)	48°55′27.923″N 2°1′42.038″E / 48.92442306°N 2.02834389°E / 48.92442306; 2.02834389	1.036 ha (2.56 acres)	155.585 ha (384.46 acres)
1321-007	Immeuble Clarté	Switzerland ( Genève)	46°12′0.576″N 6°9′23.072″E / 46.20016000°N 6.15640889°E / 46.20016000; 6.15640889	0.15 ha (0.37 acres)	1.8 ha (4.4 acres)
1321-008	Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor	France ( Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt)	48°50′36.204″N 2°15′4.644″E / 48.84339000°N 2.25129000°E / 48.84339000; 2.25129000	0.032 ha (0.079 acres)	57.113 ha (141.13 acres)
1321-009	Unité d’habitation Marseille (Cité radieuse)	France ( Marseille)	43°15′40.932″N 5°23′46.248″E / 43.26137000°N 5.39618000°E / 43.26137000; 5.39618000	3.648 ha (9.01 acres)	119.833 ha (296.11 acres)
1321-010	La Manufacture à Saint-Dié fr	France ( Saint-Dié-des-Vosges)	48°17′26.952″N 6°57′0.9″E / 48.29082000°N 6.950250°E / 48.29082000; 6.950250	0.762 ha (1.88 acres)	64.912 ha (160.40 acres)
1321-011	Curutchet House	Argentina ( La Plata)	34°54′40.83″S 57°56′30.57″W / 34.9113417°S 57.9418250°W / -34.9113417; -57.9418250	0.027 ha (0.067 acres)	6.965 ha (17.21 acres)
1321-012	Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp	France ( Ronchamp)	47°42′16.164″N 6°37′14.808″E / 47.70449000°N 6.62078000°E / 47.70449000; 6.62078000	2.734 ha (6.76 acres)	239.661 ha (592.22 acres)
1321-013	Cabanon de Le Corbusier	France ( Roquebrune-Cap-Martin)	43°45′34.992″N 7°27′48.24″E / 43.75972000°N 7.4634000°E / 43.75972000; 7.4634000	0.198 ha (0.49 acres)	176.172 ha (435.33 acres)
1321-014	Complexe du Capitole	India ( Chandigarh)	30°45′27″N 76°48′20″E / 30.75750°N 76.80556°E / 30.75750; 76.80556	66 ha (160 acres)	195 ha (480 acres)
1321-015	Couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette	France ( Éveux)	45°49′9.826″N 4°37′21″E / 45.81939611°N 4.62250°E / 45.81939611; 4.62250	17.923 ha (44.29 acres)	99.872 ha (246.79 acres)
1321-016	Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident	Japan ( Tokyo)	35°42′55″N 139°46′33″E / 35.71528°N 139.77583°E / 35.71528; 139.77583	0.93 ha (2.3 acres)	116.17 ha (287.1 acres)
1321-017	Maison de la Culture de Firminy	France ( Firminy)	45°22′59.484″N 4°17′20.641″E / 45.38319000°N 4.28906694°E / 45.38319000; 4.28906694	2.601 ha (6.43 acres)	90.008 ha (222.41 acres)

Location maps

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Location of sites throughout the world

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Location of European sites in and around France

References

^ UNESCO World Heritage List accessed 17 August 2016
^ "The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

External links

[1] UNESCO World Heritage List accessed 17 August 2016

[whs-2] "The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

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v t e Le Corbusier
Private houses	Villa Fallet Villa Jeanneret-Perret Villa Savoye Villa Schwob Villa Le Lac Planeix House Villa Cook Maison Guiette/Les Peupliers Villa Stein Curutchet House Maisons Jaoul Villa Sarabhai Villa Shodhan
Other buildings	Tsentrosoyuz building Notre Dame du Haut National Museum of Western Art Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Open Hand Monument Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau Pavillon Suisse Immeuble Clarté Immeuble Molitor Cabanon de vacances Mill Owners' Association Building United Nations Secretariat Building Sanskar Kendra Museum Museum and Art Gallery Secretariat Building Palace of Assembly Baghdad Gymnasium Maison du Brésil Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy Firminy-Vert Stadium Complexe du Capitole Couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette Maison de la Culture de Firminy Usine Claude et Duval
Unbuilt	Governor's Palace Palace of the Soviets Plan Voisin Ville Contemporaine Villa Meyer Ville Radieuse
Housing systems	Maisons de la Weissenhof-Siedlung Butterfly roof Dom-Ino House Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture Cité Frugès de Pessac Cité du Refuge Unité d'habitation Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé Unité d'Habitation of Berlin Unité d'Habitation of Briey Unité d'Habitation of Firminy-Vert
Furniture	Chaise Longue LC4 Grand Confort Le Corbusier's Furniture
Paintings and poems	Poem of the Right Angle (1947–1953)
Books	Toward an Architecture (1923)
Museums	Pavillon Le Corbusier Villa La Roche
Related	Fondation Le Corbusier Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne List of Le Corbusier buildings The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Modulor Palace of Ministry of National Education and Public Health Philips Pavilion Purism United Nations headquarters The Price of Desire (2014 film)
People	Eileen Gray Amédée Ozenfant Pierre Jeanneret Auguste Perret Adolf Loos Charlotte Perriand
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v t e World Heritage Sites in Argentina
Northwest	Quebrada de Humahuaca Talampaya National Park Inca road system¹
Mesopotamia	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis² San Ignacio Miní Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana Nuestra Señora de Loreto Santa María la Mayor Iguazú National Park
Cuyo	Ischigualasto Provincial Park Inca road system¹
Pampas	Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier³ ( Curutchet House)
Patagonia	Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas Los Alerces National Park Los Glaciares National Park Valdés Peninsula
¹ Shared with Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru ² Shared with Brazil ³ Shared with Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, and Switzerland

v t e World Heritage Sites in Belgium
Architectural Work of Le Corbusier¹ Belfries of Belgium and France² Flemish Béguinages Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs Colonies of Benevolence³ Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)⁴ Great Spa Towns of Europe⁵ Historic Centre of Bruges La Grand-Place, Brussels Major Mining Sites of Wallonia Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe⁶ Stoclet House		Flag of Belgium
¹ Listing shared with six other countries, which includes Belgium's Maison Guiette; ² Listing shared with France; ³ Listing shared with the Netherlands, which includes Belgium's Wortel; ⁴ Listing shared with France ⁵ Listing shared with seven other countries, which includes Belgium's Spa; ⁶ Listing shared with seventeen other countries, which includes Belgium's Sonian Forest.

v t e World Heritage Sites in France
Île-de-France	Palace and Park of Versailles Fontainebleau Palace and Park Paris: Banks of the Seine Provins
Parisian basin	Amiens Cathedral Belfries of Belgium and France¹ Bourges Cathedral Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars Chartres Cathedral Climats and terroirs of Burgundy Reims: Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi, Palace of Tau Abbey of Fontenay Le Havre Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay Vézelay Church and hill
Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Belfries of Belgium and France¹ Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
East	Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains and Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans Nancy: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance Strasbourg: Grande Île, Neustadt Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³
West	Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
South West	Episcopal city, Albi Port of the Moon, Bordeaux Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère valley Pyrénées – Mont Perdu² Saint-Émilion
Centre East	Chaîne des Puys Chauvet Cave Lyon
Mediterranean	Roman and Romanesque monuments, Arles Carcassonne citadel Gulf of Porto: Calanches de Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble, Avignon Bridge Pont du Gard Orange: Roman Theatre and environs, Triumphal Arch
Multiple regions	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Canal du Midi Fortifications of Vauban Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)⁴ Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe⁵
Overseas departments and territories	French Austral Lands and Seas Lagoons of New Caledonia Pitons, cirques and remparts of Réunion Taputapuātea
¹Shared locally with other region/s and with Belgium ²Shared with Spain ³Shared with Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁴Shared with Belgium ⁵Shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

v t e World Heritage Sites in Germany
For official site names, see each article or the List of World Heritage Sites in Germany.
Northern	ADGB Trade Union School Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Bremen Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace Fagus Factory in Alfeld Hedeby and the Danevirke Archaeological Border Complex St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin Hanseatic City of Lübeck Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus in Hamburg Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
Central	Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm ~~Dresden Elbe Valley~~ (delisted in 2009) Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region¹ Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski² Naumburg Cathedral Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg Wartburg Castle Classical Weimar
Western	Aachen Cathedral Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Cologne Cathedral Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey Upper Middle Rhine Valley Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier Speyer Cathedral ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz Great Spa Towns of Europe⁸ Völklingen Ironworks Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
Southern	Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Augsburg Water Management System Town of Bamberg Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Frontiers of the Roman Empire in Bavaria⁷ Frontiers of the Roman Empire:³ Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes Maulbronn Monastery Complex Margravial Opera House Monastic Island of Reichenau Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof Pilgrimage Church of Wies Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps⁴ Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
Natural	Messel Pit Fossil Site Ancient Beech Forests⁵ Wadden Sea⁶
¹ Shared with the Czech Republic ² Shared with Poland ³ Shared with the United Kingdom ⁴ Shared with Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland ⁵ Shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine ⁶ Shared with the Netherlands and Denmark ⁷ Shared with Austria and Slovakia ⁸ Shared with France, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Italy, UK

v t e World Heritage Sites in Japan
Hokkaido	Shiretoko Jōmon Prehistoric Sites	Flag of Japan
Tōhoku	Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land Shirakami-Sanchi Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining Jōmon Prehistoric Sites
Kantō	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Shrines and Temples of Nikkō Ogasawara Islands Tomioka Silk Mill
Chūbu	Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
Kansai	Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area Himeji Castle Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara Mozu- Furuichi Kofun Group Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
Chūgoku	Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) Itsukushima Shinto Shrine Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
Kyushu	Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining Yakushima Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region Amami-Ōshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island

v t e World Heritage Sites in India
North	Agra Fort The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Complexe du Capitole Fatehpur Sikri Great Himalayan National Park Humayun's Tomb Keoladeo National Park Kalka–Shimla railway Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks Qutub Minar and its Monuments Red Fort Complex Taj Mahal	Flag of India
East	Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Mahabodhi Temple Complex Nalanda Shantiniketan Sun Temple at Konark Sundarbans National Park
Northeast	Kaziranga National Park Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Khangchendzonga National Park
South	Great Living Chola Temples Group of Monuments at Hampi Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Nilgiri Mountain Railway Ramappa Temple Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas Chennakeshava Temple Hoysaleswara Temple Keshava Temple Western Ghats
Central	Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Khajuraho Group of Monuments Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
West	Historic City of Ahmadabad Ajanta Caves Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Churches and convents of Goa Dholavira Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves Hill Forts of Rajasthan Chittor Fort Kumbhalgarh Ranthambore Fort Gagron Fort Amer Fort Jaisalmer Fort Jaipur Jantar Mantar of Jaipur Rani ki vav Western Ghats Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai

v t e World Heritage Sites in Switzerland
Lake Geneva region	Lavaux Vineyard Terraces Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch¹	Flag of Switzerland
Espace Mittelland	La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle Old City of Bern Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch¹
Eastern	Convent of St. Gall Convent of St. Johann Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes² Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
Ticino	Monte San Giorgio² Castles, Wall and Ramparts of Bellinzona
Nationwide	Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps³ The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier¹ Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe⁴
¹ Shared with other region/s ² Shared with Italy ³ Shared with Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia ⁴ Shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine